NAME

       dpkg-name - rename Debian packages to full package names

SYNOPSIS

       dpkg-name [option...]  [--] file...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents the dpkg-name program which provides an easy way to rename
       Debian packages into their full package names. A full package name consists of
       package_version_architecture.package-type as specified in the control file of the package.
       The version part of the filename consists of the upstream version information optionally
       followed by a hyphen and the revision information. The package-type part comes from that
       field if present or fallbacks to deb.

OPTIONS

       -a, --no-architecture
           The destination filename will not have the architecture information.

       -k, --symlink
           Create a symlink, instead of moving.

       -o, --overwrite
           Existing files will be overwritten if they have the same name as the destination
           filename.

       -s, --subdir [dir]
           Files will be moved into a subdirectory. If the directory given as argument exists the
           files will be moved into that directory otherwise the name of the target directory is
           extracted from the section field in the control part of the package. The target
           directory will be «unstable/binary-architecture/section».  If the section is not found
           in the control, then no-section is assumed, and in this case, as well as for sections
           non-free and contrib the target directory is «section/binary-architecture».  The
           section field is not required so a lot of packages will find their way to the no-
           section area.

           Warning: Use this option with care, it is messy.

       -c, --create-dir
           This option can used together with the -s option. If a target directory isn't found it
           will be created automatically.

           Warning: Use this option with care.

       -?, --help
           Show the usage message and exit.

       -v, --version
           Show the version and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

       DPKG_COLORS
           Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5).  The currently accepted values are: auto
           (default), always and never.

       DPKG_NLS
           If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native Language Support, also
           known as internationalization (or i18n) support (since dpkg 1.19.0).  The accepted
           values are: 0 and 1 (default).

BUGS

       Some packages don't follow the name structure package_version_architecture.deb.  Packages
       renamed by dpkg-name will follow this structure. Generally this will have no impact on how
       packages are installed by dselect(1)/dpkg(1), but other installation tools might depend on
       this naming structure.

EXAMPLES

       dpkg-name bar-foo.deb
           The file bar-foo.deb will be renamed to bar-foo_1.0-2_i386.deb or something similar
           (depending on whatever information is in the control part of bar-foo.deb).

       find /root/debian/ -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a
           All files with the extension deb in the directory /root/debian and its subdirectory's
           will be renamed by dpkg-name if required into names with no architecture information.

       find -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a -o -s -c
           Don't do this.  Your archive will be messed up completely because a lot of packages
           don't come with section information.  Don't do this.

       dpkg-deb --build debian-tmp && dpkg-name -o -s .. debian-tmp.deb
           This can be used when building new packages.

SEE ALSO

       deb(5), deb-control(5), dpkg(1), dpkg-deb(1), find(1), xargs(1).